By Car

Tasmania has no internal rail service to speak of, and it is too small to make air travel necessary, so movement is restricted to the road. The major population centres are Hobart in the South-East, Launceston in the North and the string of towns along the North-West coast, in particlular Devonport and Burnie. The main stretch between Launceston and Hobart is called the Midlands highway.

It is possible to follow other major roads along most of the coastline, from South East Cape up the entire East Coast, then across the North Coast and Down the West. Two points should be noted here, there is no road around the South-West coastline, and the recent connection from the North-West tip to the West is recent, controversial (it has bisected Australia's largest tract of temperate rainforest) and of poor quality.

Finally, the Lyell highway connects Hobart to the West coast passing through the Central Highlands, and is an important route for access to the wilderness areas of the state. As with most Tasmanian roads (the Midlands and North-West highway), the road is good in most parts but is narrow and winding. Also, the Lyell Highway is occasionally blocked by snow during the winter.